> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rescueconsole.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Settings is organized > Who can open Settings, how its sidebar is grouped, and what each row is for. Settings is where your organization decides how RescueConsole works for it: the lists an animal is described with, who has access, what fees are charged, how mail is sent. Each setting is a page of its own, listed in a sidebar down the left of Settings, grouped by the errand you arrive with. ## Who can open Settings **Settings** is the last row of the main sidebar, under **Administration**. It appears for anyone whose role has **Configure** on People, Animals, Fundraising or Shifts. Among the built-in roles, that is the **Organization admin**, **Director**, **Shelter manager**, **Veterinarian** and **Volunteer coordinator**. Roles and their permissions are explained in [Team roles](/settings/team#team-roles). Opening Settings is not the same as being able to change everything in it. Each page says who can change it, and some organization-wide pages belong to the **Organization admin** alone. Settings opens on **General profile**, which is one of those: anyone else is told so, and can pick another row. Everybody, whatever their role, reaches their own account from **My account** at the top of every page. Several Settings pages can also be found by name in the search palette. See [Finding your way](/getting-started/finding-your-way). ## Organization and You At the top of the Settings sidebar are two buttons: * **Organization** shows the settings for the whole rescue. A change there affects everybody. * **You** shows **Profile & password**, which affects only you. Each group in the sidebar opens and closes with its heading. The group holding the page you are on is always open, and which other groups you leave open is remembered on this device. On a phone, the whole sidebar folds behind a button that names the page you are on. ## Organization | Row | What it is for | | --------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [General profile](/settings/organization#general-profile) | Your organization's name, logo, contact details, locale, social links and tax details. | | [Locations](/settings/organization#locations) | The places you operate from, which one is your main address, which are shown publicly, and the housing built at each. | | [Public page](/public-site/overview) | What the world sees, and how to put it on your own website. | | [Partner rescues](/settings/organization#partner-rescues) | The rescues you transfer animals with. | ## Team and volunteers Shown in the sidebar as **Team & volunteers**. | Row | What it is for | | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Team members](/settings/team#team-members) | Who has access to this organization: inviting people, changing their roles and removing them. | | [Team roles](/settings/team#team-roles) | What each role can see, change and configure, and roles of your own. | | [Volunteer roles](/settings/volunteers) | The jobs volunteers sign up for. A role has to exist here before a shift can ask for it. | | [Volunteer rules](/settings/volunteers) | Limits on how volunteers sign themselves up. | ## Animal management | Row | What it is for | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Species](/settings/pet-configuration#species) | The animal types your organization works with. | | [Breeds](/settings/pet-configuration#breeds) | The breeds, or kinds, intake offers for each species. | | [Age groups](/settings/pet-configuration#age-groups) | What counts as a kitten, an adult or a senior, for each species. | | [Animal statuses](/settings/pet-configuration#animal-statuses) | The statuses an animal can have, and what each one does. | | [Application stages](/settings/pet-configuration#application-stages) | The steps an adoption or foster application moves through before a decision. | | [Behaviour](/settings/pet-configuration#behaviour) | The behavioral traits your records use, and where each may be shown. | | [Medical](/settings/pet-configuration#medical) | The diagnoses, tests, vaccines, treatments, procedures and medications an animal's medical records pick from. | ## Finance and adoption Shown in the sidebar as **Finance & adoption**. | Row | What it is for | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Adoption fees](/settings/finance#adoption-fees) | The fee schedule that suggests each animal's adoption fee, and the discounts taken off it. | | [Donation amounts](/settings/finance#donation-amounts) | The one-click amounts offered when somebody records or makes a donation. | | [Payments](/settings/finance#payments) | Taking donations and adoption fees online through your own Stripe account, and the other apps you are paid through. | ## Operations and forms Shown in the sidebar as **Operations & forms**. | Row | What it is for | | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Cage cards](/settings/cage-cards-and-ids#cage-cards) | The card on the kennel door: what it shows, what it is printed on, and where its QR code goes. | | [ID format](/settings/cage-cards-and-ids#id-format) | How animal ID numbers are built, and when the count starts again. | | [Microchip registry](/settings/microchip-registry) | Whether your animals' chip numbers are listed in RescueConsole's own chip registry, and who a finder should call. | | [Forms](/settings/forms) | Public forms people fill in: applications, sign-ups, enquiries. | | [Workflows](/settings/workflows) | Checklists your team follows, such as intake, onboarding and application review. Written once here, run on a record. | | [Contract templates](/settings/contract-templates) | The agreements adopters and fosters sign. | ## Communications | Row | What it is for | | ---------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Inboxes](/communications/inboxes) | The addresses this organization receives mail at, and who can read each one. | | [Sending](/communications/sending) | The address your emails come from, and where replies go. | | [Message templates](/communications/templates) | Saved messages, each with a name and a subject, to start an email from. | ## Data and customization Shown in the sidebar as **Data & customization**. | Row | What it is for | | ------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Custom fields](/settings/custom-fields) | Extra fields your team can fill in on a record. | | [Record layouts](/settings/record-layouts) | Which fields your staff forms show, in what order, and which of them are required. | | [Import](/settings/import) | Bringing a spreadsheet across. Nothing is created until you have seen exactly what it will do. | | [Export](/settings/export) | Taking your data with you. Every file is a CSV of what you can already see. | ## Advanced and security Shown in the sidebar as **Advanced & security**. | Row | What it is for | | ---------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Activity](/settings/activity) | Recent changes across every record you can see. | | [Communications log](/communications/log) | Every message sent or received for your organization. | | [Settings history](/settings/settings-history) | Every change to this organization's settings: who made it, when, and what they sent. | | [API keys](/settings/api-keys) | For reaching your data from something that is not a browser: a script, a spreadsheet, your website. | | [Webhooks](/settings/webhooks) | Telling another system each time something here changes: an animal adopted, a person added, a donation logged. | | [Integrations](/settings/integrations) | Other systems your rescue exchanges records with. | | [Support access](/settings/support-access) | Whether RescueConsole staff can open your account to help with a problem. | ## Your account Shown when you choose **You** at the top of the Settings sidebar. | Row | What it is for | | -------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [Profile & password](/settings/your-account) | Your own profile, password and email signature, and what your role can do. |